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From film to TV, music and literature, the female gaze has been promoted wholesale without shame, secrecy or euphemism. Here are some highlights from 2024. The sound of desire
NEW YORK (AP) — An upcoming film series at Lincoln Center asks a provocative question: Is there such a thing as a "female gaze" in movies?
Mulvey discussed aspects of voyeurism and fetishism in the male gaze in her article, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema".She drew from Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 film, Rear Window, applying terms from Sigmund Freud's theories of psychoanalysis to discuss camera angle, narrative choice, and props in the movie while focusing on the concept of the male gaze.
[4] She has credited the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes as her introduction to classic cinema, becoming an avid admirer of Marilyn Monroe. [5] To advance her knowledge into cinema, at a young age, she read editions of Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide and watched films presented on Bill Collins' Golden Years of Hollywood program on Network 10. [6]
In Film and the Masquerade: Theorising the Female Spectator, Doane agrees with Laura Mulvey on cinema catering to male pleasures and the male gaze. She argues that women are too close to the object of the gaze; they struggle between feminine and masculine viewing positions, “invoking the metaphor of the transvestite.” [6] As a result of ...
Editor’s Note: Sara Stewart is a film and culture writer who lives in western Pennsylvania. The views expressed here are her own. The views expressed here are her own. View more opinion on CNN.
Franco-American critic and broadcaster Iris Brey has teamed with Paris-based sales/production outfit Totem Films to adapt her 2020 book “The Female Gaze: A Screen Revolution” as a nonfiction ...
The early work of Marjorie Rosen and Molly Haskell on the representation of women in film was part of a movement to depict women more realistically, both in documentaries and narrative cinema. The growing female presence in the film industry was seen as a positive step toward realizing this goal, by drawing attention to feminist issues and ...